Target Shooter Magazine THE WIND
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shoot through. If you loosed a shot accidentally or negligently, it went straight into the earth embankment without a chance of overshooting anything. Very safe yes, but unfortunately, although you could see your precise target, you couldn’t see any wind flags or condition indicators at all, I don’t know how you can judge wind here but apart from mirage, nothing tells the speed or direction of airflow diverting your bullet’s flightpath. Luckily our day, although 38 degrees centigrade with boiling mirage, was virtually wind free, it must be pointless shooting in a howler like we see at Diggle or Blair Athol.
6.5 Creedmoor, one to watch? More steel gongs and clay pigeons out to distances of 600 yards were either sounded or broken by a selection of Savage rifles equipped with Leupold scopes in calibres from 204 Ruger up to 9.3x62mm fodder, more familiar to out continental colleagues’ boar hunting pastimes. Along with chronographed velocity demonstrations of the new Superformance hunting ammo, we used both monolithic GMX bullets and new A-Max pills manufactured to the tighter AMP (advanced manufacturing process) tolerances.
I’m not sure if it was these, the new 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge or the Savage rifles to thank but normal clay pigeons were being dusted with boring regularity at 600 yards. Very impressive, especially when many of the writers present had never shot more than 200 yards before. Throughout these `playtimes`, we were encouraged by Leupold’s tech crew to learn more about dialling turrets for longer ranges (not always a hunter’s priority but very familiar to us target types) especially with the new Custom Bullet- drop Compensation dials, perfectly matched to the ammunition.
Horus reticules were great for the tactical shooters, along with the Gold Ring spotting scopes proving outstanding, easily spotting bullet-splash from small calibres at 600 yards in the sand traps to call shots onto the target. Although still a little fresh, keep your eyes out for the 6.5 Creedmoor here in the UK from Savage. I think it could be the cartridge that everyone
Have you got any 208gr A-Max please mister---he did!
Reloading tools are also manufactured on site. A press casting before and after machining.
The new AMP process is reliant on copper film of dastardly perfect thickness, here seeing being re- rolled, just to make sure.
These are the specific calibre, barrelled actions on the data page in your manual used to work up recommended handload recipes.
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